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Cash discount, cash discount cannot be confused with trade discount. The two concepts are wholly distinct and separate. Cash discount is allowed when the purchaser makes payment promptly or within the period of credit allowed. It is a discount granted in consideration of expeditious payment, Dy. C.S.T. (Law) Board of Revenue v. Advani Coorlikon (P.) Ltd., (1980) 1 SCC 360: AIR 1980 SC 609 (610): (1980) 1 SCR 931. [Central Sales Tax Act (74 of 1956), s. 2h...
Sale price
Sale price, 'Sale Price' means the amount payable to a dealer as consideration for the sale of any goods, less any sum allowed as cash discount according to the practice normally prevailing in the trade, but inclusive of any sum charged for anything done by the dealer in respect of the goods at the time of or before the delivery thereof other than the cost of freight or delivery of the cost of installation in case where such cost is separately charged and the expression 'purchase price' shall be construed accordingly, Shree Gopal Industries Ltd. v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1971 SC 2054: (1971) 2 SCC 532.(ii) Under s. 4 of the Madhya Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1958 the liability to pay tax is that of the dealer. The purchaser has no liability to pay tax. There is no provision in the Act from which it can be gathered that the Act imposes any liability on the purchaser to pay the tax imposed on the dealer. If the dealer passes on his tax burden to his purchasers he can only do it by au...
Wholesale cash price
Wholesale cash price, there can be no doubt that the 'wholesale cash price' has to be ascertained only on the basis of transactions at arms length. If there is a special or favoured buyer to whom a special low price is charged because of extra-commercial considerations, e.g. because he is relative of the manufacturer, the price charged for those sales would not be the 'wholesale cash price' for levying excise under s. 4(a) of the Act, A.K. Roy v. Voltas Limited, AIR 1973 SC 225 (228): (1973) 3 SCC 503: (1973) 2 SCR 1089. [Central Excise and Sales Act, 1944, s. 4(a)]Where a manufacturer sells the goods manufactured by him in wholesale to a wholesale dealer at arms length and in the usual course of business, the wholesale cash price charged by him to the wholesale dealer less trade discount would represent the value of the goods for the purpose of assessment of excise. That would be the wholesale cash price for which the goods are sold at the factory-gate within the meaning of s. 4(a), A...
Purchase price
Purchase price, means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged. [The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(20)]Means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including the amount of duties levied or leviable under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) or the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged and includes--(a) in relation to:(i) the transfer, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract, of property in any goods,(ii) the supply of goods by any uni...
Dealership agreement
Dealership agreement, agreement whether is a dealership agreement or agency agreement, determination. Agreement was on principal to principal basis and it was an absolute sale made by respondent in favour of dealers. Dealer is required to make full payment of goods purchased by him forthwith and given cash discount as per length of period of payment. Agreement held to be a dealership agreement and not an agency agreement, Union of India v. Bombay Tyre International Ltd., 2005 (3) SCC 787 [Central Excise Act, 1944, s. 4(4)(d)(ii)]...
Bank Rate
Bank Rate. The minimum rate of discount charged for the time being by the Bank of England for discounting, cashing before due date the bills of certain approved mercantile houses. The bank rate is declared usually once a week....
Prize amount
Prize amount, means the difference between the chit amount and the discount, and in the case of a fraction of a ticket means the difference between the chit amount and the discount proportionate to the fraction of the ticket, and when the prize amount is payable otherwise than in cash, the value of the prize amount shall be the value at the time when it becomes payable. [Chit Funds Act, 1982 (40 of 1982), s. 2(m)]...
discount
discount : a reduction made from the gross amount or value of something: as a : a reduction made from a regular or list price or a proportionate deduction from a debt account usually made for prompt payment or for payment in cash b : a reduction made for interest in advancing money upon or purchasing a note not yet due c : a reduction in the price of a bond see also discount bond at bond d : the sale of securities that are issued below and redeemed at face value compare premium [dis-kant, dis-kant] vt 1 a : to make a deduction from usually for cash or prompt payment b : to sell or offer at a lowered price 2 : to lend money on after deducting a discount [banks negotiable instruments] 3 : to take into account (a future event or prospect) in making present calculations vi : to give or make discounts [dis-kant] adj 1 a : selling goods or services at a discount [a broker] b : offered or sold at a discount [ securities] 2 : reflecting a discount [the price] ...
Loan societies
Loan societies, institutions established by the purpose of advancing money on loan to the industrial classes, and receiving back payment for the same by instalments, with interest. They are exempt from the provisions of the Money Lenders Act, 1900.By the (English) Loan Societies Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 110 (continued by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 19, and made perpetual by 26 & 27 Vict. c. 56), forms of proceeding of a similar nature to those prescribed in the Acts regulating savings banks and friendly societies are requisite to enable loan societies to avail themselves of this Act, and see 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41, and 59 & 60 Vict. c.25, s. 2, as to certification of Rules by the Registrar of Friendly Societies.These societies are entitled to issue debentures for money deposited with them (otherwise than by way of gift), and these as well as all other notes and instruments given in pursuance of the Act are exempted from stamp duty. They are also placed on the same footing with savings banks, in the...
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